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...push back. Brazil, now the world's second biggest cotton exporter after the U.S., last year won a WTO ruling that Washington's cotton subsidies unfairly distorted world trade. A U.S. appeal was denied. And when Congress failed to act on U.S. Department of Agriculture proposals to fix the WTO problem by a September deadline, Brazil, exercising its right under WTO rules to "retaliate," announced that it would no longer honor patents and copyrights on U.S. movies, pharmaceuticals and other items. The U.S. warned Brazil to back off or face the wrath of Congress, but Brazil is seeking $1 billion...
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel Twentieth Century Fox 2 stars Fans of the documentary “Spellbound” or those eagerly anticipating the Scripps National Spelling Bee each year are not going to get their fix of competitive dictionary memorization from the new Richard Gere film, “Bee Season.” Frustratingly, this adaptation of Myla Goldberg’s novel focuses more on spiritual exploration and family tribulation than on silent “e”s and phonemes. Gere is Saul Naumann, a cocky, self-absorbed father who demands perfection...
...Sovereign voices have been silent for over a week. The toothy grins, the crisper-than-a-Docker’s-commercial khakis—gone, boarded up. Naima Bensassi, a personal banking representative at Sovereign Bank, adamantly insists, “We’re just trying to fix it, that’s all.” But rumor has it that an unidentified Harvard student, beat, for lack of a better phrase, the (non-)living shit out of the thing. Who knew that unsolicited home equity advice could trigger such amusing aggression? Their emphatic hellos had infuriated some...
...Debate over a physical cause of depression tends to become bogged in uncertainty over cause and effect. Does a spontaneous chemical abnormality trigger the bad feelings we call depression, or might years of unresolved anxiety and festering discontent cause chemical disturbances - disturbances that might fix themselves once sufferers put their lives in order? By slowly unraveling the extraordinary complexity of neurotransmitter interaction, scientists are learning more about how the brain works. But they still wouldn't claim to know the half of it. Pinning depression on a chemical imbalance is problematic when what constitutes normal brain chemistry...
...Harvard students, we have a responsibility to fix the ills of our world. But to fix them, we’ve got to know them. Maybe if we personally understand how the other half lives, we’ll be more likely to dedicate our lives to their service...